Quartz - Clear Quartz
Meaning of Quartz
Quartz Crystal Meaning The All singing, all dancing crystal. Good for the soul, powerful dispels negativity in your own energy field and in the environs. Receives, activates, contains, amplifies and transmits energy, a good thought provoker and a friend to meditation inspiring communication with the higher self. Used as a tool for therapy it is an excellent channeler of healing. Mother of all stones.
Magical Use: Magical power, psycism, healing.
Healing Use: Brain and all energy channels
Quartz Physical Properties
Quartz (SiO2) is the most abundant single mineral on earth. It makes up about 12% of the earth's crust, occurring in a wide variety of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Quartz forms hexagonal prisms, terminated by rhombohedra, or pyramidal shapes. The faces are often striated, and the crystals twinned and distorted. It also occurs in massive, granular, concretionary, stalactites and cryptocrystalline habits. The streak is white. Quartz is a transparent to translucent mineral, and it has a vitreous lustre on fresh surfaces. Cleavage is poor and fracture conchoidal. Group OXIDES, Composition SiO2, Hardness 7.0, Crystal structure TRIGONAL